Ninjabowler
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Onecup is 8 fluid ounces. Soo, heres wher i f up....1.6 fl oz of tea. Maybe.. Id round up personally
Ok, thanks!! I don't y that was soo hard for me.. Oh... Yes I do lol!! I was thinking 5 gal would be 4 ounces then half of that would be 2 ounces for 2 1/2 gal. But I'm baked so wasn't to sure.Onecup is 8 fluid ounces. Soo, heres wher i f up....1.6 fl oz of tea. Maybe.. Id round up personally
I dont know if you should cut them off but i hope you run those t5s alot closer than they are in the pictureNewbie here with first grow! I am very glad i found this thread, it has been extremely informative and i am thankful for everyone's input! I am growing DWC in 2-5 gallon buckets. 1 5inch puck airstone in each bucket fed by a 4 outlet 170 gallon airpump. One Blue Dream and one Golden Goat, not sure if that is relevant!? Anyway, got both as clones about 1-1/2 months ago and were roughly 7 in tall. I have been using GH flora nutes at half strength for 3-4 weeks now and the plants seem to respond well to them.
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First plant is the Blue Dream!
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About 2 weeks ago all roots had turned brown and all growth seemed to stop. The plant itself still looked healthy. A couple of days later i pulled the brown roots out, as much as i could, cleaned,flushed and replace nutes. Those are the new roots as of today. Looks to be a few brown spots here and there but otherwise good. For the last couple of days i have been adding 3% hydrogen peroxide to the res in hopes it would help prevent "the brown" in the future. I have ordered all the items to make the Tea on the internet and was hoping the peroxide would help until I got the items in the mail!? Next is the Golden Goat!
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These were new roots about 11-12 days ago!
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This is today. Same as before, slow to no growth but healthy looking plant. There is new healthy white roots just starting to poke out of the net pot. My question is should i cut these brown roots out?? I am waiting for the Tea ingredients to arrive but won't be here for 7-10 days and i really don't want the new roots to grow into the brown roots. Is using peroxide a good way to keep this at bay until i can add the Tea? I have been adding 30ml every other day. Sorry for the long post but I wanted to add as much info as I could! Thanks in advance for the help!!!
I'll guess:Heisenburg i know your out there somewhere, what in your personal opinion (which is pretty much fact) is the top three causes of slime minus adding organic nutes.
Also, have you noticed any increase or decrease when ph solutions are used vs. not used?
Unnecessary additivesHeisenburg i know your out there somewhere, what in your personal opinion (which is pretty much fact) is the top three causes of slime minus adding organic nutes.
Also, have you noticed any increase or decrease when ph solutions are used vs. not used?
I personally wouldn't cut them just yet unless they are smelly and/or mushy, but I would give them a slight tug to see if they wanted to come off. Let us know how the tea works for you. Good luck!Newbie here with first grow! I am very glad i found this thread, it has been extremely informative and i am thankful for everyone's input! I am growing DWC in 2-5 gallon buckets. 1 5inch puck airstone in each bucket fed by a 4 outlet 170 gallon airpump. One Blue Dream and one Golden Goat, not sure if that is relevant!? Anyway, got both as clones about 1-1/2 months ago and were roughly 7 in tall. I have been using GH flora nutes at half strength for 3-4 weeks now and the plants seem to respond well to them.
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First plant is the Blue Dream!
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About 2 weeks ago all roots had turned brown and all growth seemed to stop. The plant itself still looked healthy. A couple of days later i pulled the brown roots out, as much as i could, cleaned,flushed and replace nutes. Those are the new roots as of today. Looks to be a few brown spots here and there but otherwise good. For the last couple of days i have been adding 3% hydrogen peroxide to the res in hopes it would help prevent "the brown" in the future. I have ordered all the items to make the Tea on the internet and was hoping the peroxide would help until I got the items in the mail!? Next is the Golden Goat!
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These were new roots about 11-12 days ago!
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This is today. Same as before, slow to no growth but healthy looking plant. There is new healthy white roots just starting to poke out of the net pot. My question is should i cut these brown roots out?? I am waiting for the Tea ingredients to arrive but won't be here for 7-10 days and i really don't want the new roots to grow into the brown roots. Is using peroxide a good way to keep this at bay until i can add the Tea? I have been adding 30ml every other day. Sorry for the long post but I wanted to add as much info as I could! Thanks in advance for the help!!!
Honey has been used for rooting clones but I've never heard of using it in a tea. If you search for honey and molasses there will be posts about "why use honey when everyone uses molasses?". If it's a cost-effective reason then maybe it might work, since the molasses is just food(in sugar form) for the beneficials. Please, someone correct me if I'm wrong.And my noob question is.... Is honey a suitable replacement for molasses? Ta.....
Trichoderma attack other fungi, including pythium and yes sometimes even mycos if they have nothing else to feed on. They do so by producing enzymes which degrade cellulose and chitin. The first detect their prey and then rapidly grow towards it, coil around it and bathe it in enzymes so they may eat it. Target fungi include Pythium, Rhizoctonia, Botrytis, Colletotrichum, Alternaria solani, Phytophthora capsici, Fusarium, Sclerotinia and even Green-mottle mosaic virus. Trichoderma can have systemic effects, meaning treatment of the root zone can lead to resistance from leaf pathogens, probably by stimulating phytoalexin, the plants natural defense.Questions:
1) The trichoderma are the "eaters" right? Do they create certain enzymes that eat bad stuff, or do they eat the bad stuff themselves?
2) I have some old liquid enzyme that says it has earthworm castings in it, but it has little chunks of seaweed in it and I'm afraid it will gunk up my res. Could I use that? I wasn't sure so I bought something that only has liquid castings.
3) I also have a bottle of H&G multi zen. Where does that fall into this and how could it be used?
(jeesus! This thread is donald trump uuuuge! Possibly too many OT posts... hope my post isn't too OT )
Honey has antimicrobial properties and also produces H2o2 as it breaks down, although it is unclear how harmful this is to microbes once diluted in water. An acceptable substitute for molasses is maple syrup.And my noob question is.... Is honey a suitable replacement for molasses? Ta.....
The bio worm and bio root would go well in the tea. The bio thrive can be used directly in the res.Question:
Mr. Heisenburg, would you be so kind and have a look at this page from GH-Europe if you think that I can use one or more of these nutrients in the Tea (the ones i listed above)? At the moment Im not using any of these in the Res but will do so in the Tea if you give me a green light on this.
I simply use small lava rocks, the type you can get at walmart in the BBQ area. I drizzle molasses over them and place them into the tea brew. I then place a few in the res of my young plants who do not yet have enough roots to provide housing. For a really large res a koi pond mat works well, however I do not see anything wrong with what you describe. Should work just as well.Hey, Mr. H. Great stuff and right up the alley I try to bowl. I use lava rocks in a "housing" to take the return water from the Fresca Sol.
I know it can harbor and foster benies.
So, when you say housing, do you mean a pump filter box, where the pump is covered in lava rocks? I've heard of that in outdoor ponds. The pump is in a milk crate buried in lava rocks. Something like that?
Or can the rocks just be in the bottom of a bucket with the pumps on top....if you know?
Excellent!I simply use small lava rocks, the type you can get at walmart in the BBQ area. I drizzle molasses over them and place them into the tea brew...
In australia we have golden syryp which is made from cane sugar so I'm imagining this is the ticket...so my bent brain is thinking....sock bombs!..worm castings with hydroton smothered in molases inside sock,end tied off and tossed into my dwc...what do you think Heis?Honey has antimicrobial properties and also produces H2o2 as it breaks down, although it is unclear how harmful this is to microbes once diluted in water. An acceptable substitute for molasses is maple syrup.
Thanks Mr. H., appreciate it a lot having a look at it!The bio worm and bio root would go well in the tea. The bio thrive can be used directly in the res.